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BLANK SLATE BOOKS NEW BRITISH COMICS 2014 /15 BLANK SLATE BOOKS NEW BRITISH COMICS CATALOGUE 2014/15 A LONG DAY OF MR. JAMES-TEACHER HARVEYJAMES 68 ACCIDENTAL SALAD, THE JOE DECIE 66 ALBY FIGGS WARREN PLEECE 1212 BAND, THE MAWIL 78 BEETROOT BARNABY RICHARDS 08 BERLIN AND THAT OLIVER EAST 90 CONEY ISLAND BABY NINE ANTICO 1010 BLANK DEATH & THE GIRLS DONYA TODD 3434 DEPARTURES PIERREPIERRE MAURELMAUREL 22 DINOPOPOLOUS NICK EDWARDS 72 SLATE FELT MISTRESS: CREATURE COUTURE 40 GIRL AND THE GORILLA, THE MADÉLEINE FLORES 74 HECTOR UMBRA ULI OESTERLE 62 BOOKS HOME & AWAY MAWIL 76 HUGO TATE NICK ABADZIS 56 KOCHI WANABA JAMIE SMART 1616 NEW JOE DECIE LISTENING AGENT, THE JOE DECIE 26 LOVE LOOKS AWAY LINE HOVEN 38 BRITISH LUCHADORAS PEGGY ADAM 86 MY SKATEBOARD LIFE ED SYDER 82 NELSON ROB DAVIS & WOODROW PHOENIX 60 COMICS NELSON SPECIAL EDITION DAVIS & PHOENIX 1414 ORSON WELLES: SPECIAL AGENT! GORDON RENNIE & WOODROW PHOENIX 24 CATALOGUE PEEPHOLES LAURIE J. PROUD 58 PIMO & REX THOMAS WELLMANN 20 PLAYING OUT JIM MEDWAY 30 2014/15 PROPER GO WELL HIGH OLIVER EAST 90 PSYCHIATRIC TALES EXPANDED DARRYL CUNNINGHAM 04 SILVER DARLINGS, THE WILL MORRIS 32 SLEEPYHEADS RANDALL C. 64 SPARKY O’HARE MAWIL 80 SPLEENAL NIGEL AUCHTERLOUNIE 84 SUITCASE, THE DAN BERRY 42 SURVIVALIST, THE BOXBOX BROWNBROWN 70 SWEAR DOWN OLIVER EAST 28 TAKE AWAY LIZZ LUNNEY 1818 TRAINS ARE ... MINT OLIVER EAST 88 UNCLE BOB ADVENTURES DARRYL CUNNINGHAM 06 WE CAN STILL BE FRIENDS MAWIL 80 WEAK AS I AM NIGEL AUCHTERLOUNIE 36 OMEWHERE along the curve from the Hippy Underground comicsS of Crumb, Green and Bode to the new literary comics, marked by Eisner, Spiegelman, Clowes, Bechdel and Crumb (again) English language comics found their voice. They opened up a new world where autobiography, reportage and narrative fiction found comics form, and in doing so, generat- ed a whole new marketplace. Comics grew and stretched and found a new way to talk to readers who’d never read a comic before. It wasn’t just the US either. Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and more found new homegrown comics movements emerging, new publishers putting ink to paper. Yet people would ask “Where are the British comics?” The country which arguably invented the form was missing in action, its comics talent– barring odd flashes of brilliance:2000AD, Viz, Deadline, Slab-O-Concrete–called overseas to re-write the future of the US comics industry. Faced with nothing but kids’ comics, creators packed their virtual bags and turned their heads westward as so many had before them. Now, at long last, creators’ eyes are looking homewards again. | 03 THERE’S a clamour building, a new audience having their blue touchpaper lit, eyes and minds being opened up to just what words and pictures can do together. New publishers are springing up. Artists are challenging themselves to produce fun, inventive, meaningful comics, to break the mould and produce new British comics up there with the very best. I’m proud to have Blank Slate Books placed at the centre of that revolution, giving chances to more new UK comics artists than anyone else. There are amazing new comics here, as well as collections of some half-forgotten gems, and for just a touch of variety a few translated award-winners thrown in. We hope this catalogue makes you want to explore UK comics’ new dawn. Every book you buy moves another cartoonist nearer to the ‘roll presses’ order, and there are so many we want to print. In the three years that Blank Slate’s been around we’ve been thrilled by the support you’ve given, and hope that you agree this catalogue represents a return on your investment and the scaffolding for building great, new, UK comics. The next UK comics masterpiece is just around the corner. Listen, I hear it coming. KENNY PENMAN PUBLISHER PSYCHIATRIC TALES EXTENDED EDITION DARRYL CUNNINGHAM Price: £10.99 / US $14.99 | 05 Size: 210 × 148mm Pages: 176 ISBN: 978-1-906653-54-9 Format: Hardcover/B&W Released: Out now DARRYL CUNNINGHAM has Darryl Cunningham delves inside the been involved in the mysteries and misconceptions of mental British comic scene since illness in this acclaimed, bestselling exposé his days studying at the drawing on his experience as a psychiatric Leeds College of Art. After nurse. Frank, hard-hitting and moving, the breakout success of Cunningham recounts his experiences Psychiatric Tales in working on an accute psychiatric ward. A hardcover, Darryl now sufferer of depression himself, he presents regularly lectures at and matters in a forthright and instantly contributes to conferences accessible way from both sides of the on mental health and the picture. Topics covered include Bi-polar part comics can play in disorder, self harming, suicide, depression education. His book and how famous sufferers’ illnesses may Science Myths has recently been published by have been part of what made them great, Myriad Editions. He also before a final chapter detailing the author’s contributed a chapter to own struggle and recovery. Blank Slate’s award- Darryl Cunningham’s Psychiatric Tales is winning Nelson. He lives in a moving, engaging examination of what is, Yorkshire. at its root, the human condition. This expanded edition presents an updated OBSERVER GRAPHIC version of Psychiatric Tales, including two NOVEL OF THE MONTH, new chapters. APRIL 2010 “READING PSYCHIATRIC TALES CAN BE A VERY CATHARTIC PROCESS AND CERTAINLY ENRICHES YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.” —BART CROONENBERGHS, THE COMICS JOURNAL “I LOVE THIS BOOK. IT IS MOVING AND BEAUTIFUL AND WRENCHED FROM THE HEART. IT TAKES OTHER AUTHORS WHOLE BOOKS TO SAY WHAT DARRYL CAN SAY IN A SINGLE ILLUSTRATION.” —JON RONSON, AUTHOR, THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS AND THE PSYCHOPATH TEST UNCLE BOB ADVENTURES DARRYL CUNNINGHAM Price: £15.99 / US $21.99 | 07 Size: 285 × 210mm Pages: 68 ISBN: Vol. 1: 978-1-906653-14-9 ISBN: Vol. 2: 978-1-906653-31-6 Format: Flexicover/Colour Released: Vol. 1 - Out now Vol.2 - Out now DARRYL CUNNINGHAM has Prepare yourself for a roller-coaster been involved in the ride through strangely familiar territory British comic scene since as Darryl Cunningham brings us these his days studying at the curiously direct yet subtly dark stories, Leeds College of Art. After related by his hero, the unassuming in the breakout success of appearance yet dynamic and fearless man- Psychiatric Tales in of-action ‘Uncle Bob’. hardcover, Darryl now regularly lectures at and Soldier, adventurer, explorer and personal contributes to conferences envoy to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Bob on mental health and the is intrepid, quick-thinking and more than part comics can play in a match for any of the bizarre adversaries education. His book he encounters in his incredible adventures Science Myths has recently on land or at sea, in the air or deep at the been published by centre of the earth. Terrific fun for all ages, Myriad Editions. He also these deceptively simple tales will put a contributed a chapter to smile on everyone’s faces. Blank Slate’s award- Famous for his highly acclaimed books winning Nelson. He lives in Psychiatric Tales and Science Tales, this is Yorkshire. an altogether different side of Darryl, as he indulges in these stories for children of all ages which allow him to abandon fact and embrace wild fantasy. Volume One features meetings with Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, Martian Tripod invaders and a special apperance by Death himself. Volume Two includes Uncle Bob matching his wits against dinosaurs, jungle men and masked nogooders, and takes him deep underground where no human has ever gone before! “IT’S BOTH WHIMSICAL AND SORTA HEARTBREAKING” —BRIGID ALVERSON, ROBOT 6 BEETROOT BARNABY RICHARDS Price: £15.99 / US $21.99 |09 Size: 270 × 210 mm Pages: 64 ISBN: 978-1-906653-60-6 Format: Hardcover/Colour Released: Winter 2014 BARNABY RICHARDS is a When Barnaby Richards was a London based illustrator. child, his parents announced to him one He contributed comics to day that the family were to be moving Sturgeon White Moss, and to Beirut, where his father had found a collaborated with Tanya new job. Young Barnaby did not know Meditzky on a publication what Beirut was and in his head he called Two Sentences. He substituted the word ‘beetroot’ instead. has illustrated for a range of Beetroot, a graphic memoir, is all about clients from The Guardian the distance between what is imagined G2, The Independent, and what is real, about the stories that and Walker Books, to a child tells himself when he doesn’t Paul Smith Jeans. quite understand the world around him, Beetroot is Barnaby’s first book. falling into the gap between imagination and reality. Colourful dreamily etched pictures take us inside young Barnaby’s mind as he dodges bullets and giant sentient snakes, and wanders across the city’s rooftops with his imaginary friends. Open this book and accompany him on his journeys, encountering the many un- knowable people and bizarre creatures with mysterious agendas who populate the strange world of Beetroot. “I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO GOSH! ALUMNI BARNABY RICHARDS‘ GRAPHIC NOVEL BEETROOT ABOUT GROWING UP IN WAR-TORN BEIRUT, A PAGE OF WHICH TURNED UP IN THE COMIX READER #2. BARNEY IS HOLED UP WORKING ON THE BOOK RIGHT NOW AND OCCASIONALLY POPS UP ON THE INTERNET TO TELL US ABOUT IT.” —HAYLEY CAMPBELL, THE GOSH! AUTHORITY CONEY ISLAND BABY NINE ANTICO Price: £16.99 / US $24.99 |11 Size: 228 × 150 mm Pages: 216 ISBN: 978-1-906653-21-7 Format: Softcover with flaps/B&W Released: Winter 2014/15 NINE ANTICO Described by Nine Antico as a is a French illustrator and ”part of my reflection on women and how cartoonist.